New Gun for Warriors

The dust is settling on the big new of 9th edition of 40K and the preview of the new Necrons.  I am excited for all the new stuff coming especially the Skorpekh Lord.

Blackstone Fortress Minis finished! Summer Challenge Progress!

I finished the last of the Blackstone Fortress miniatures! Hurray! Also the summer painting challenge has been updated!

December Building Round-Up: Pallets & Spawn & Rogue Traders, Oh My!

Twas the Night before Christmas,
and all through the house,
All the creatures were purging
and cleaning
Especially the future spouse
Away terrain
Away paint
Away miniatures so small
To hide until the Yuletide festivities
are past for all.

Santa's Helpers

Merry Christmas Eve & Happy Holidays! Here at the Blockade household, we've been especially busy with trees and decoration & baking. But this month has also seen a variety of event & future event planning & even some miniature painting!

Possible Battlewagon Conversion

With the release of the new codex I have been thinking I could use a third battlewagon for my battlewagon blitz tactic.  Since being burned by the second hand market and the kit being sold out last time I checked I have been looking at what I can convert.  Enter the Mage Knight  Dwarven Steam Behemoth.

Renegade Army Showcase

Hi all,

In preparing for Shorehammer this year, I've been going back and forth as to how I'll be running my Renegades and Heretics List. First, I had to see exactly what I had in the army. Mainly because I've been so focused on building and painting I never stopped to see what I actually had or needed.

Battle Damaged Scenery and Big Bots!

Hi all!

Been a slow week for me, as it's the last week of summer stretching into the first week of teacher work. So I've been filling the time with using up some of this huge variety of plastic scenery filling up my wargames closet. I also wanted to try some new techniques out that have been bouncing around my brain for a while.

Taurox and Sorcerers Finished!

Hi All,

As I've gotten distracted by video games, and our usual game days were unfortunately delayed, it's been a bit of a slow last few weeks with painting, but I managed to get some more things done after the glorious "Predator" mud-bath project. So, I finished painting up the Taurox and two kitbashed 30k Thousand Son Sorcerers that may or may not feature in a future apocalypse game.

April Hobby Update: Thousand Sons Rhino & Goliath Rockcrusher

Hi all!

Been a busy bee this last week, and here's what I've got to show for it. I finished my birthday gifts to myself and from the gf, my Rockcrusher (Counts-As-Predator) and my Rhino. (She's generally pacifist, so when I told her she got me the most pacifist vehicle available in warhammer outside of the Arvus lighter, she was quite pleased with her luck.)

Zinge Industries Half Track Conversion Kit Review and Building

Greetings! I have an awesome review of a purchased upgrade kit for the Taurox Imperial Guard  Astra Manofsteel Fine, the Astra Militarum. Many of you remember it last looked like this when I built it right after the holidays.

WIP: Kustom Grot Mega Tank

After having some success with my grot tanks it was suggested that I get the Mega Tank.  While I don't have the cash for a real one I thought I might be able to make one.

WIP: Grot Tanks - slapin' some paint around

After finishing up the building of my two new Grot tanks I started to paint them up.  Last night I got the first one up to tabletop quality.

WIP: Grot tanks - Filling out the ranks!

After my grot tanks did decently the other day I wanted to try to fill out the ranks.  Forge world would be awesome but they are not in the budget right now but I had some old Ramshackle bits hanging around and then I saw a conversion made from some old toy that I found on ebay real cheap I thought I could make me some proxies until I get more from Forgeworld. 

WIP: Dakkajet Conversion.

I know that Dakkajets conversions are so 5th edition but I never got around to doing the conversion that I wanted and I never thought I had the skills to pull it off.  Well times change and I have done some scratch building now so I decided it was time for the Ork-10 Dakkajet.